pic: Team 1592 Ultimate Ascent robot, Buzz.

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Originally Posted by class1234567

If you don't mind me asking,what is the point of the gas springs if the system of the lead screw lifts and holds the shooter in place ?

The gas springs make the load on the system pretty well near zero unless accelerating. Aka the system thinks its close to weightless while sitting still. There is still inertia that has to be overcome but the shooter assembly as a whole is pretty well balanced. Before the lead screw was put on it would hold what ever position you pushed it to. So in short they allow us to have to go through less of a reduction in order to change the angle of the shooter which allows us to do it more rapidly.